As fast as I delete photos from Camera Roll, the space is eaten up - what is causing this?

My photo is fit to burst so I've been deleting a bunch of pictures which are already backed up elsewhere (and also in the icloud)
However, as I'm going through and deleting hundreds of pictures, I see the freed up space only equivalent to about 200mb then suddenly the free space has gone.
I do NOT have wifi sync set up so what could be causing 'something' to eat up this newly freed up space?

I have indeed found that after deleting lots of different stuff to free up space on the phone, you do need to reboot it, then it detects the newly freed up space correctly - essential for all the new and seemingly much larger iOS 8 updates

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